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The National Institute of Nutrition is in charge of nutrition activities at the central level, together with the Preventive Medicine Department and Maternal and Child Health Department of the Ministry of Health. At the subnational level, nutrition is assigned to the provincial centres for disease control, district health centres and communal health stations. At the grass-roots level, village health workers implement community nutrition activities. All stakeholders support the Government in the implementation of nutrition interventions.

The Government has approved the National Nutrition Strategy 2021–2030 and assigned tasks to various stakeholders. Other international agencies and civil society organizations in the Multi-Stakeholder Platform generally support the Common Results Framework. United Nations agencies and the SUN Civil Society Alliance have greatly contributed to supporting the Government in accelerating nutrition progress, especially the development of the National Nutrition Strategy, Nutrition for Growth commitments, nutrition within the food system, and nutrition in emergencies. In 2022, in preparation for the national target programmes in 2023, capacity-building was in focus on the subnational level.

The Prime Minister has ratified the National Nutrition Strategy 2021–2030 and vision to 2045 to address the triple burden of malnutrition, based on a situation analysis and global targets. The strategy prioritizes vulnerable groups and emphasizes the importance of governance and multisectoral coordination. For the first time, the strategy has set up a budgetary indicator to cover nutrition interventions. Multi-Stakeholder Platforms are aligned with the Government to provide support.